Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography :
New Evidence of an Authorship Problem re-opens
the Authorship Question with an arsenal of new information and
powerful arguments. It is the first major authorship book since
1916 without an ideological bias, the first to introduce new evidence,
and the first to undertake a systematic comparative analysis with
other literary biographies. It was released in 2001 as no. 94 in
Greenwood Press’s academic series, “Contributions in Drama and
Theatre Studies,” making it the first book on the subject to be
published in a peer-reviewed series. The updated paperback
edition is now available.

Among the new evidence and arguments introduced in this book:

Comparative analysis of literary papers trails for Shakespeare and two dozen of his contemporaries

Analysis of documentation showing that Shakespeare was a theatrical financier and business agent

Comparative analysis and interpretation of Groatsworth of Wit and Vertue's Commonwealth

Analysis of Jonson's "De Shakespeare Nostrati" and the significance of Jonson's classical sources

Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography
proposes that William Shakespeare of Stratford was a successful
entrepreneur, financier, play broker, businessman, theater
shareholder, real estate tycoon, commodity trader, money-lender,
and actor, but not a dramatist. It further proposes that the
works of "William Shakespeare" were written by an
unnamed gentleman. This book exposes logical fallacies and
contradictions in the traditional accounts of Shakespeare's
whereabouts; his professional activities; his personality profile;
chronology; autobiographical "echoes" in the plays; the
dramatist's education and cultural sophistication; circumstances
of publication of the plays and poetry; and in particular, the
testimony of playwright Ben Jonson. Citations are drawn almost
entirely from orthodox sources. The book includes 33
illustrations, a bibliography, and an index.

Price has been seen recently in two documentaries for TV, Last Will. And Testament, broadcast in 2012-2014 on various PBS affiliates, and Claus Bredenbrock’s 2013 The Naked Shakespeare, produced for the Florian Film Group and broadcast on various (European) ARTE affiliates.

Price has published a variety of articles on related topics in peer-reviewed journals and magazines. Her article “Reconsidering Shakespeare’s Monument” (The Review of English Studies, 1997) introduced the first known image of Shakespeare’s funerary monument. Price debated Prof. Donald Foster in The Shakespeare Newsletter (1996 and 1997), and her articles are cited in Counterfeiting Shakespeare by Brian Vickers (September 2002) and Ward Elliott and Robert Valenza in Shakespeare Quarterly (June 1997). Her essay proposing a solution to Philip Henslowe’s puzzling annotation “ne” appeared in Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama (2003), and her article “Evidence for A Literary Biography” was published in the fall 2004 issue of the Tennessee Law Review (2004). Her review of Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy, ed. Stanley Wells and Paul Edmondson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) is posted on Amazon US, Amazon UK, and, with full bibliography, this website.

She has lectured at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Tennessee Law School, Cleveland Public Library, California State University (LA), Cleveland State University, the University of North Carolina (Greensboro), John Carroll University, Griffith University (Brisbane), the Cleveland Renaissance/Early Modern Seminar, as well as numerous civic organizations.